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Since childhood, photographer Claudio Contreras Koob has been obsessed with flamingos. He spent over a decade gathering 120 stunning portraits of the bright pink birds in Yucatán, Mexico, now ...
With AI-generated images fooling prestigious competitions, Miles Astray decided it was time to turn the tides: his real portrait of a flamingo won an AI award before it was ultimately disqualified.
After an image of a headless flamingo placed in an international competition for A.I.-generated photography, its creator revealed his secret to success: The photo was real.
Miles Astray’s flamingo shot was disqualified, but made a statement nonetheless: “Nature is just so fantastic and creative, and I don’t think any machine can beat that,” he said.
Meet Bob, the Flamingo Ambassador of Curaçao. After flying into a hotel window, this flamingo was rescued by a local vet and has become a rising educational star on the island.
For that AI category, Astray submitted an image that appeared to show a flamingo without its head and neck—but that was a little white lie. The piece, entitled F L A M I N G O N E, is a real ...
MANNAR, Sri Lanka — With reddish-pink, brushstroke-like smudges on its wings, legs and large downward-curved beak, the greater flamingo is a stunning bird to watch, particularly in flight as ...
It’s fitting that the Park Service named the visitor center for a conservation officer who was killed trying to protect wildlife from poachers at Flamingo in 1905; the dedication/reopening occurred as ...
With AI-generated images fooling prestigious competitions, Miles Astray decided it was time to turn the tides: his real portrait of a flamingo won an AI award before it was ultimately disqualified.